Sweden and Finland have decided to “go hand in hand throughout the process”.
On Wednesday, May 18, Sweden and Finland Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson made this statement during a joint press conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö, Interfax reports.
Andersson said that Sweden and Finland have decided to “go hand in hand throughout the process”.
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Earlier it was reported that Finland and Sweden plan to apply for NATO membership in May . Thus, both countries have decided to speed up the accession process without waiting for the Alliance's summit in late June.
On May 16, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey would not agree to join. Finland and Sweden to NATO.
Sweden and Finland have long been synchronizing their security and defense policies. Unlike their neighbors Denmark and Norway, which are members of NATO, Sweden and Finland, they had to rely on themselves. When it turned out that Russia was a much more dangerous neighbor than it seemed, Sweden and Finland reconsidered their position on NATO. Read more in the article by Alina Gritsenko “Finland is one step away from NATO membership: what will Russia respond to.”
